Leicestershire Yeomanry War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. War memorial.
Leicestershire Yeomanry War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-nave-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Leicestershire Yeomanry War Memorial, Newtown Linford
- OS grid reference
- SK 524 110
- Coordinates
- 52.69492, -1.22545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Leicestershire Yeomanry War Memorial, built around 1920, is a granite chip concrete obelisk approximately 1.0 meters tall, set on a stepped plinth. The design incorporates a cross and features wreaths on its sides. Below the cross, there are metal plaques and regimental crests. This memorial commemorates those who fell in the Boer War and both World Wars. It is a significant landmark, located near the Old John Tower in Bradgate Park.
Local climate
Leicestershire Yeomanry War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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